Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Google Summer of Code 2010 now accepting student applications

The Google Summer of Code 2010 program is now accepting student applications!

Google Summer of Code is a global program to introduce students, ages 18 and over, to the wonderful world of Open Source development. GSoC offers student developers stipends to write code for various Open Source projects. Students can choose from 150 Free and Open Source software projects, in technical areas as diverse as gaming to humanitarian efforts to operating system design.

More info on the Google open-source blog and the GSoC home page.
Each Open Source project contributes mentors and a list of ideas for the students to work on. I've signed up to volunteer as a mentor for the Tuscany project from the Apache Software Foundation. The GSoC ideas from all Apache projects can be found there, the Apache Tuscany project ideas here.

Here are a few ideas from the Apache projects that I found particularly interesting: